A bit of fluff between some meatier material.note
We have a very blustery day! Pitr grows rutabaga! Paulo fixes a rocking chair! Carolyn gives hugs! Tim falls out of a tree! Lisa eats honey!
Episode 66 of Film Reroll. Based on the 1968 Disney short.
A blazing storm has come to the Seven Acre Woods — the forest where young Cristopher Robin’s toys live and play — and the plushy residents are dealing with it the best they can. However, there also seems to be something strange going on right beneath the surface. Our heroes are intent on making it through the chaos in one piece, but will they also uncover the mysteries lurking in the woods? note
Starring Lisa Kopitsky as Winnie the Pooh, Carolyn Faye Kramer as Piglet, Timothy "Tim" Nolan as Owl, Paulo Quiros as Eeyore, Kara Straitnote as Rabbit, and Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as the Dungeon Master.
Followed by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Early Appearance: As Rabbit decided to have everyone sleep over at his house for the night, Tigger gets to meet all the animals at once; also, Rabbit winds up being the first one to meet him as Pooh was still asleep.
- Ambiguous Gender: Piglet is portrayed as such, as the Rerollers were
legitimately uncertain about the character's gender. - Ascended Extra: Invoked by Kara, who makes it her mission to give Rabbit a bigger role than The Cameo he had in the film.
- Bar Brawl: Apparently, Rabbit participated in at least one back in the 60's.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The Rerollers (particularly Kara) spend an extended amount of time discussing the anatomy of our stuffed animal protagonists, such as whether or not they have skeletons.
- Call-Back:
- At one point, Opus shows up at Rabbit's burrow.
- No one comments on it, but the fact that Joz plays Tigger is one to a comment Scott made in his first episode.
- Towards the end of the campaign, Paulo has Eeyore tell Christopher Robin “Wake up, Kevin, you’re falling.”note
- Companion Cube: Brock, Pooh's new "rock friend." Also a Call-Back to Pokémon: The First Movie.
- Conscience Makes You Go Back: After Owl's tree collapses, Kara rolls to see if Rabbit will resist his charitableness and, due to misreading the roll as a success, opts to have Rabbit go home. But upon realizing her mistake, she roleplays it as Rabbit deciding to wash his hands of the whole affair... only to realize while justifying it to himself that he's presently the only one who still has food and shelter. This causes him to set up his burrow to house the others for the night.
- Crapsack World: Part of the problem with how nihilistic Paulo was playing Eeyore was that not only was Kara finding it difficult to riff off of it, but also it kept hitting too close to home.Kara: Life is just a void wearing a meaning costume.
- Darker and Edgier: Downplayed: While there's repeated hints towards the backstory Joz had devised for the campaign, Owl's repeated flashbacks to the war, Eeyore's extreme bouts of nihilism, and the players either accidentally or deliberately adding sexual elements, the campaign is still a lighthearted affair where (especially compared to the lost first attempt) Everybody Lives, and Piglet and Eeyore might have something happening.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Owl is implied to have had some vague, barely remembered interaction with humans at a young age, which he catches a glimpse of in a dream.
- Death by Adaptation: The players give a moment of silence to Piglet, implying that he somehow died in the original version of the episode.
- Death Seeker: Inverted: When the animals gather together to try and get Owl out of his tree before it collapses, Eeyore decides to add his two cents:Eeyore: If we do that, we rob Owl of what we all desire: A swift release.
- The Eeyore: The Trope Namer himself, of course, who Paulo takes to downright nihilistic levels.
- Enforced Method Acting: Accidental: Early into the episode, when Kara gets into a spat with Carolyn over supposedly stealing her trivia tidbit about Winnie the Pooh and China, Joz almost aggressively goes back to the campaign, which causes Lisa (in a bit of panic) to decide to have Pooh run to Piglet's house.Joz: (loudly) ALRIGHT POOH, WHO'RE YOU GONNA TELL IT'S WINDSDAY- (over Kara, who tries to speaknote ) NO, WE'RE MOVING AHEAD! NO, WE'RE MOVING AHEAD! WE HAVE LIMITED TIME, WE GOTTA GO!Carolyn: You swore at me-!Tim: (at the same time) Christopher Robin says "No".Lisa: (taken aback) I- oh God. So- so-Tim: Go Pooh, go!Lisa: (screams) I- I run? Apparently, I'm running- high energy! High energy, [Kara]!
- Everybody Lives: One of the few Film Reroll campaigns without a single confirmed death.
- Flashback with the Other Darrin: Parodied: When Rabbit shows resistance against Owl trying to save him from the waterfall, in part because of Kara's own frustrations with Owl, Tim cracks that Rabbit suddenly had a flashback of being a piglet in another life, where Owl was a dick to him.note
- Fun with Acronyms: "Friend to Everyone, Mostly Animals."
- God Is Inept: Discussed: According to Eeyore, he is unable to climb because God made him how he is "as a joke".
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Tigger getting his tail stuck in Pooh’s honey pot goes wrong fast.
- Human Ladder: Eeyore, Pooh, Rabbit and Piglet form one to reach Owl's tree house.
- Improvised Parachute: As they're blown away by the wind, Piglet and Pooh use the former's scarf as a makeshift sail. It works.
- Inevitable Waterfall: Our protagonists head toward one during the climax, after the forest has been flooded. They are all saved by Owl, who swoops in for the rescue.
- Jerkass: Apparently, Tim’s first go as Owl had him be act as a dick towards Piglet, much to Kara’s annoyance (who originally played Piglet).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rabbit is a bit of a Jerkass and a Deadpan Snarker, but he's still willing to let the whole gang spend the night in his house once they become homeless.
- Lighter and Softer: While Darker and Edgier than the source material, the episode is still this compared to the original campaign, which was apparently less comedic, more cynical, and had at least one character's death.
- Lost Episode: Sadly, the original recording of this episode disappeared due to technical issues, forcing the Rerollers to redo the reroll and start the campaign over from scratch. What's worse is that the original was to be Jocelyn's debut as the DM, and that it apparently had some really good jokes.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Pooh accidentally drops Brock the Rock on Piglet while trying to introduce him. Fortunately, nobody got hurt.
- Nightmare Sequence: The Heffalumps and Woozles scene from the film is retained... sans the Heffalumps and Woozles themselves, as Tigger no longer has time to mention them.
- Original Character: Variation: As a result of Rabbit becoming an Ascended Extra, that in turn means Joz adds in his friends and relations from the original books.
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The Other Darrin: In the original campaign, Piglet was played by Kara, rather than Carolyn (who wasn't in that episode.) It also featured Andy Hoover, possibly as Pooh, (who ended up being played by Lisa in this episode.) - A Rare Sentence: “Piglet, are you a narc?”
- The Reveal: After Carolyn (as a bit of teasing) refers to Kara as “Peter Rabbit”, she comes forward and admits that the reason why she changed the spelling of her (at the time) name to “Pitr” was because of that book.note Kara: I’m saying people called me “Peter Rabbit” as a kid, and you wouldn’t think that can be an insult, but if you’re seven and you say it with enough of a sneer, anything is an insult.
- Self-Serving Memory: Downplayed: In recounting his roleplaying from the original recording, Paulo remembers playing Eeyore mildly dark, and only getting worse as the episode went on, while Kara remembers he played it about the same he did here.
- Serious Business: Early into the campaign, when Kara brings up how Winnie the Pooh is Banned in China, Carolyn (playfully) calls her out for stealing her "fun fact". Kara, in response, does the following:Kara: Okay...Tim: Shots fired?Kara: One... Fuck off.(everyone else gasps in shock)Kara: Two-Carolyn: (mortified) Oh my God, that was playful, I was, like, kidding, and you actually swore at me, and you meant it! You misnered that "Fuck off" at me, and you meant it.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Eeyore and Owl are both portrayed as such, with Eeyore having the most obvious symptoms.
- Ship Tease: Carolyn is determined to start a romance between Piglet and Eeyore. The later is about as enthusiastic about that as he is about anything else.
- Shout-Out:
- “Why’re you wearing that stupid Tim costume?”
- The players spend some time discussing what type of benders the protagonists would be. As illustrated here.
- Peter Rabbit getting brought up causes Paulo to bust out a passage from Lucy’s book report.
- The Silent Bob: Variation: No one plays Kanga or Roo in the campaign, and outside of a mention of being at Rabbit's burrow along with the others, they do not factor into the plot at all.
- The Unreveal: It's implied several times that there is some dark conspiracy in the Hundred-Acre Woods, but what this secret actually is is anyone's guess, as it's never actually revealed.note
- We All Die Someday: "Don’t worry, Piglet. Soon all of this blur into the unending blackness of living."
- We Are Not Going Through That Again: When Paulo decides to have Opus appear at Rabbit's burrow, Kara promptly decides to roll to have Rabbit stab him in the heart.note
